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(No Model.)

C. P. JENKS.

LINK GUFI PASTENER.

` No. 476,540. PatentedJune '7, 1892.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CIIARLES F. JENKS, OF IVILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OE TWO-THIRDS TO PHILIP B. SHAW AND, FRANK R. SAOKETT, OF SAME PLACE.

LINK CUFF-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 476,540, dated June 7,1892.

Application iiled March 23, 1891.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES F. JENKS, a citizen of the United States,residing at iVilliamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inDevices for Fastening Cuffs Used with Link-Buttons to Sleeves, of whichthe following is a specification.

The present invention relates to devices for securing cuffs used withlink cuff-buttons to shirt-sleeves and for maintaining the edges of suchcults approximately parallel with each other without the necessity ofproviding the r 5 cuffs with extensions in which to forni buttonholes,vas has heretofore been done; and the invention consists in the fastenerhereinafter described.

lVhen cuffs are used with asingle-shank cuffbutton,the two edges of thecuit overlap and both edges are secured to a single button or stud inthe sleeve, to which the cuff is secured by means of butlonholesdirectly in the body of the cuit; but when cuffs are used with buttonshaving two parts connected bya lilik orlinks they cannot be secured tothe sleeve in this manner, since it is necessary to maintain the twoedges of the cuff at a short distance from and substantially parallel toeach other. As above indicated, this has generally though notexclusively been done heretofore by the use of acuft' ot' specialconstruction-viz.,one having short extensions from the two edges withbuttonholes in the extensions. It will be evident that when suchextensions are placed near one end ot' the cuff it is thereby madenon-reversible, and is therefore objectionable.

By my improvement it is possible to use ornary cuffs with link-buttonsand to maintain their reversibility.

In the accom pauying drawings, which illustrate the invention,Figure lis a side viewof a cud attached to a sleeve. Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe fastener, and Fig. 3 is a view of the saine at right angles to Fig.2.

l is an ordinary cui,having buttonholes at 2 2 and connected to ashirt-sleeve 3 by means of a stud or button 4, placed in said sleeve inthe ordinary manner. In the upper buttonholes are two buttons 5 5,connected byalink 6 of such length as to allowthe edges 7 7 of the cui?to remain a short distance apart.

Serial No. 386,043. (No model.)

The fastener or device for securing the cuff to the sleeve and formaintaining the edges at a distance apart and parallel consists of abody S, of spring brass, steel, or other Wire, having at one end a loop9 of suicient size to embrace the shank of the stud 4, which studconstitutes the device for securing one 6o edge of the cuit and forms apart of the fastening device. The opening 10, leading into said loop, isnarrower than the diameter of the shank; but the shank can readily passtherethrough, owing to the yielding of the wire. The wire is so bent asto make the body quite wide, as shown. This forni adds to the elasticityof the sides, tends to prevent the fastener from turning when in use,and makes it easy to get the holder over the sleeve-but- 7o ton. At theopposite end of the body S is a second device for the attachment of oneedge of the cuff. This consists of a button 1l, supported on a shank l2at right angles to the body S. This fastener consists of only twopieces-a button and the body S, loop 9, and shank l2, which are formedof a single wire bent into shape and having the ends twisted together,as shown.

This fastener is used in the following man- 8o ner: The fastener isfirst secured to the sleeve by placing the holder or loop 9 on the shankof the stud 4. with the button 1l turned away from the sleeve. The cuffis then placed in position, the stud et being placed in buttonhole 2 andthe button 1l in 2. Since the body S is of practically the same lengthas the link 6, the edges of the cuff will be maintained Vin the properposition.

Having thus described the invention, what 9o I claim is- A fastener forsecuring a cuit with separate parallel edges to a sleeve, comprising aloop 9, a body 8, connected to said loop by a contracted neck, arightangle section 12, said 95 parts being made of a single wire bent inthe form indicated, and a stud or button on the section l2,substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 19th day of March, 1891.

CHARLES F. JENKS.

Witnesses:

P. H. MOORE, H. F. DETWILER.

